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Kathmandu Monday October 02, 2000 Aswin 16, 2057.
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No time to argue over
Maoist issue, says DPM
Post Report
KATHMANDU, Oct 1 - Deputy Prime Minister
Ram Chandra Poudel today said that the government was trying to improve relations between
the police and the army in a bid to crush the Maoist rebellion.
Replying to a query raised by The Kathmandu
Post, DPM Poudel said; "It is essential to build good coordination between the
security wings of the government (to quell the rebellion). Government is doing this
job."
Poudel had said yesterday that there
existed some differences between the police and the army primarily due to lack of
coordination and communication between them.
"Though a democratic country should
try to end all the disputes through peaceful dialogues, it is unimaginable that the
government halt all its primary duties just hoping for a dialogue with the
insurgents," said Poudel. "Government just can't, even for a second, stop
exercising all its security and administrative apparatus for the maintenance of the law
and order, which is its primary responsibility."
Poudel, however, criticised his own party
for failing to resolve the intra-party strife for power and the failure of the party to
build a single stand on the strategic Maoist issue.
"This is no time to argue who should
replace whom from power," he said. "It is impossible to solve the problem merely
by changing the Prime Minster or a minister. We can only fight the problem collectively.
In fact NC alone can't fight the problem without assistance from other democratic forces
in the country."
Poudel, however, said the government was
reconciling the warring NC factions. "After repeated efforts, Bhattarai seems willing
to help the government in the current crisis," he said. Krishna Prasad Bhattarai is
leading the disgruntled faction of the ruling NC.
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